Strangeabbott: Support Cook, not Burrows, or else — else WHAT? more grifting?

Now that McDade Phelan has bailed from the Texas House Speaker's race, and the buttoned-up two-thirds wingnut David Cook faces an alleged challenge to succeed him from the blathering Dustin Burrows, our state's beloved Gov. Strangeabbott has weighed in, a slight bit more directly than Dannie Goeb did from the state Senate and Lite Guv's house.

There on Shitter, Strange referenced the number of House Republicans that he primaried over caucuses:

Let me be clear:

I worked this entire year to elect conservative candidates who will pass conservative laws, including school choice.

To achieve that goal we need a Texas House Speaker chosen by a majority of Republicans in accordance with the Republican Caucus Rules.

Seems straightforward.

Contra the Trib's piece building off that, this won't "dash" Burrows' hopes. Burrows did that to his own self within the first 24 hours of his claim that he had the votes. Even if he's not lost eight or more Rethugs, or more than one Democrap, he's still got uphill sledding in a shitstorm of his own making.

That said, also on Shitter, Scott Braddock points out that either Strangeabbott himself or his paid political flunkies are doing grifting while trying to play both sides of the street. More of that rabbit hole is here.

This looks like the normal Jesuitical-type parsing, flunkies' apparent grifting or not, for which the likes of Chris Hooks has long called him out.